USAF Academy Honor & Deception
By Dave Philipps | The Gazette Facing pressure to combat drug use and sexual assault at the Air Force Academy, the Air Force has created a secret system of cadet informants to hunt for misconduct…
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Budget Cuts Threaten Civil Air Patrol
By General Aviation News Staff Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) has introduced an amendment to the new defense spending bill that would dramatically reduce funding for CAP missions and programs for Fiscal Year 2013. The Senate…
USAF Officer Pleads Guilty to CAP Cadet Molestation
By Howard Altman | The Tampa Tribune ORLANDO – Stephen Governale had been a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, a protocol officer at U.S. Central Command and a leader of a National aviation…
FBI Searching for More Sex Victims in Florida Wing
By Howard Altman | The Tampa Tribune [Editor’s Note: Lt Col Governale was actively engaged with cadets at the national and region levels where his victims stayed alone with him in his room at various…
Board of Governors Updates CAP Constitution
By CAP Volunteer Now NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS – Civil Air Patrol’s Board of Governors approved an updated Constitution and Bylaws on Monday. The document incorporates the organization’s new governance structure. The governance changes streamline the organization’s…
USAF Airman Charged with Child Molestation
Aggregated by AuxBeacon News A staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force has been charged with two counts of lewd molestation of a minor in Cleveland County District Court. Steven Jay Beacham, 32, Midwest City,…
Col Russ Hodgkins, CAP-USAF Commander Answers Questions
Aggregated By AuxBeacon News Staff Col Russ Hodgkins, (USAF) Commander of CAP-USAF has taken the time to answer questions from the folks who read this blog. These questions were collected from the field via comments…
U.S. Air Force — Integrity First?
By Skip Munger | News of the Force Numerous people from the Civil Air Patrol — the U.S. Air Forces’ civilian auxiliary — have initiated a letter-writing campaign to members of the U.S. Congress. The…
Air Force Academy Ignores Rapes
By ABC News The U.S. Air Force Academy is an institution that prides itself on its fabled “Code of Honor,” but it’s now at the center of what’s shaping up to be the biggest military…
Air Force Ends 4-Year Feud with Civil Air Patrol
By Jeffrey McMurray | Associated Press The nation’s premier volunteer rescue agency ended a four-year feud with the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday by signing a formal operating agreement — the first in the auxiliary’s…
Air Force Proposes CAP Board of Governors
By Bryant Jordan | Air Force Times The Air Force would like to restructure the Civil Air Patrol’s governing board to include a mixed bag of elected and appointed officials, including four named by the…
CAP Executive Director Resigning Amid Controversy
By Donna Leinwand | USA TODAY The Civil Air Patrol’s executive director has announced his resignation amid a swirl of controversy, less than one month after the FBI raided the group’s Montgomery, AL, headquarters. Paul…